Riding attachment for grain drills



April 14, 1925.

. C. F. RYBA RIDING ATTACHMENT F'OR GRAIN DRILLS Filed March 27, 1924 WWW ' 'A TTORNEY' Patented Apr. 14, 1925. I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE].

' crmnnns r. RYBA, or IBEARDSLEY, KANSAS. RIDING ATTACHMENT FOR GRAIN mums. I

Application filed March 27, 1924; Serial No. 702,271.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. RYBA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beardsley, in the county of Rawlins and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Riding Attachments for Grain Drills; and I do'de clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. v

This invention relates to a riding attachment for grain drills. In certain parts of the country, for example Kansas, it is the practice to drill in wheat between rows of corn while the stalks are still standing and for this purpose one horse wheat drills are employed. The drilling in of the wheat by a single drill is a slow method so some farmers handle two drills which of course necessitates the driving of two horses. In handling the two drills, they must be driven on opposite sides of the row of corn and usually the corn stalks extend above the drills so this method has the disadvantage that the corn stalks become broken during the drilling in period and the method also has the added disadvantage that the driver has difficulty in handling the off horse; besides on account of the screen formed by the row of corn stalks he cannot observe the action of the drill on the off side, the result being that two drills cannot be used with as great efficiency as is possible with a riding attachment.

I have therefore provided a novel riding attachment with a seat support which will bridge the rows of corn so that the'driver may sit above the top of the stalks and control the two horses on each side of the row in an easy and eiiicient manner, thus he is enabled to control both horses without undue effort and at the same time he is able to observe both drills with equal facility and thereby keep them in the spaces between the rows. My invention therefore consists in a riding attachment comprising brackets fas tened to the frames of the drills with seat supporting arms in the bracket connected ried, the connections being such that there is certain flexibility in the connections so 18 against displacement.

by a seat perch upon which the seat is car-.

that provision is madefor-inequa'lities of pull by the draft animals, that is one drill may have certain relative movement independent of the other but they will be maintained in proper later spaced relation at all times. The novel construction of the preferred embodiment of my invention will be specifically referred to hereinafter, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a rear elevational view of two one-horse grain drills with my invention applied.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of a grain drill with a supporting bracket secured thereto, and

Fig. 3' is a detailed perspective view of one of the brackets. 1

The two grain drills l and 2 are of standard construction and are horse drawn in the usual manner. To the frames of the drills are secured brackets 3 and 4. Each bracket is shown as comprising a'yoke consisting of a top bar 5 and two depending side bars 6 and 7, at the lower ends of which are shackles 8 and -9 for attachment to the side bars of the frame 10. 'The U-shaped bracket may be constructed of strap lI'OIl, commercial bars or cast in a sin gle piece if desired, and the top bar 5 carries a tubular sleeve 11 to receive the seat perch supporting arms 12 and, 13. The arms 12 and Bare in the form. of cranks,

that is each arm has an intermediate por tion 14 with a downwardly projecting end 15 receivable in the tube 11- and an upwardly projecting end 16 receivable in one of the tubes 17 and 18 as the case may be.

The downwardly projecting end 15 is held in its tube 11 by a cotter pin or similar device 19. The upper end 16 of each arm has a cotter pin'or similar device 20 extending throughit to hold its tube or sleeve 17 or secured to a depending finger 22 on bar 5.-

The bracket in The brace bar 21 is sectional, in that-it con- I sists of two parts 23 and 24 which maybe adjusted one with the other so as to tilt the brackets with respect to the frame for the purpose of tilting the seat backward or for ward and the lower end of the brace 21 is fastened to the frame of the drill by a fastening device 25. The. seat perch 26 is fastened to the sleeves l7 and 18 by U-bolts 27 and 28 but obviously any suitahle fastening means-maybeemployed. p

The perch 26 is angular so that it will not turn in its supporting meinbers and the seat perch carries a seat bar'29 on one end of Which is the seat 30,.and at'the other. end of which is the foot rest '31; I prefer to fasten one ofthe arms--12or 13-in its complementarysleeveor socket member 11 so that -it- Wi11-rn0tturn with respect thereto and i in :order' "to do this,- I "make one of the arms 15 angular-in cross section as: indicated at 32=,rs0-'that it; isreceivedin a complernenta rysoclzet, the other tnbetli for the bracket onthe opposite drill is ronncl honeVerens -are 5 also the bores of the sleeves '17 and 1,8, therefore-one of thenrins 12 01 13 V for-exaqnple 13{Will -be fixedwivith-respect to its "complementary sooket '11 but there will be loose connections between the npstand ing end 16 endthe'sleeve l8-and a lolose connectien between the sl-eeve '17 end .thenpstanding end of its arm 12 and there will be n loose connection;between the opposite sleeve 11 on the bracket r The rider may sit upon the seatand-above thetop ofthemows of Icor-nso that heWill have as full View of theidieldx beforelyh-im He will sit 'inna ,naturalH-riding position so that he canadrive the horses as ;& ,tdamrmanr t aining the drills in their proper relative positions-guiding them between the rows of corn so'that the Wheat can be drilled in,

in a inost convenient manner and on achaving an end located lll:01l6 ofsaidsoc-lrets, i Y

sleeves move-l ly niounted o,nthe eopposite ends of said arms a-perch'b-ar fixed to said sleeves and connecting gthe I graingidrills in spaced relation, rand-a 'drivers seatfixed; on 7 said perch bar, one of the;perch.inrrns -hav ing-non-rotatable connection with itsisocket,

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